By Jen Schumann | Rocky Mountain Voice
Parents have long been told that the science on vaccines is settled. A study conducted inside Henry Ford Health in Detroit set out to reinforce that message. Its authors wrote that their goal was to “reassure parents of the overall safety of vaccination.”
The data didn’t land the way the authors expected.
Tracking over 18,000 children, the study showed higher chronic illness among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated. At the ten-year mark, 57 percent of vaccinated children had at least one chronic condition. For unvaccinated kids, it was 17 percent.
Parents online are calling out what the unpublished Henry Ford data really shows.
The numbers that couldn’t be published
Charts included in the study showed striking gaps. By the numbers, vaccinated kids showed more than four times the asthma rate, six times autoimmune disease and over six times neurodevelopmental disorders.
The unpublished Henry Ford study tracked children for a decade and found higher rates of chronic illness in the vaccinated group. Full details are outlined in testimony now before Congress.
The Senate showdown: 661 trials or zero?
The Henry Ford results weren’t the only data point raising questions. At a Senate hearing last week, Stanford physician Dr. Jake Scott defended vaccine safety by pointing to what he said was “the most comprehensive database of vaccine trials ever assembled.”
“This is what transparency looks like,” Scott told senators. “We confirmed that all 16 antigens routinely recommended for children have been studied in placebo controlled trials — every single one. The claim that childhood vaccines haven’t been tested against placebos is demonstrably false.”
But attorney Aaron Siri countered that the list Scott presented collapsed under scrutiny.
“567 of these trials were not a routine injected vaccine for a disease in the CDC’s childhood schedule,” Siri said. “The remaining 94 studies, 70 of them, did not involve healthy children.”
That left just three studies. One used an antibiotic injection as the control, another used aluminum adjuvants and the third allowed a few hundred children to receive saline — but only after three full doses of Gardasil 4.
“The result is there’s zero trials, zero, which were relied upon… to license a routine injected vaccine on the CDC schedule that included a placebo,” Siri said.
At the Senate hearing, Aaron Siri dismantled claims of 661 placebo trials — reducing them to zero relevant studies.
The suppression of results
Back in Detroit, Henry Ford’s scientists never published their study. According to Siri, one author admitted she did not want to make doctors uncomfortable, and another feared losing his job.
“It was not submitted for publication precisely because it found the opposite result,” Siri told Congress.
Even basic findings were considered too controversial for publication.
Siri’s framing before Congress
In his written testimony, Siri argued that the real problem was deeper than one unpublished study.
“The common thread through all of these public health failings is the a priori belief that vaccines are safe. This belief corrupts the ‘science’ around vaccines,” he wrote.
He added, “The vaccinated children in the study suffered from numerous chronic health issues that did not plague the unvaccinated children.”
Attorney Aaron Siri told Congress the study was buried because its results went against the approved narrative.
From Detroit data to Denver rules
The Henry Ford study has raised questions about trust as much as health. The authors set out to reassure parents. But they found higher rates of chronic illness in the vaccinated group. The paper was never published.
Critics say that choice leaves families unsure how much to trust the next safety claim.
The timing is notable. As Rocky Mountain Voice reported last week, Colorado’s health department has proposed dropping the CDC as its reference point for school vaccine policy in favor of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which applies stricter rules on exemptions.
Parents now face shifting standards even as suppressed data becomes part of the Senate record. For many, the unanswered question remains the same: whose rules to follow, and which science to trust.
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